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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. Dr. Susan D.

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National Hazing Prevention Week 2021

Missouri State

Hazing does not happen only in student organizations and fraternities and sororities, in fact, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) found that experienced some form of hazing while in college (NCAA, 2007; Allan and Madden, 2008). in Plaster Student Union. Contact the Office of Student Conduct.

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Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We also talked with other schools who had been through similar tragedies, and they experienced something similar to what we did—that is that many students were feeling strongly that they wanted to come back.” ” “Students will have the entire semester to make that decision,” he added.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6